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By Jonathan Klotz | Published
Galactic Battlestar is a fantastic series that helped revitalize science fiction. The first two seasons are full of great character moments and a tense cat-and-mouse chase between the Cylons and the Colonial Fleet. By season 3, some believe the show began to go off the rails.
As a fan, I found myself frustrated by the increasing frequency of moments that ruined years of character development, and that was before the reveal of Final Five. But it turns out that showrunner Ronald D. Moore deliberately designed the fate of one character, Starbuck, to be confusing and cause fans to fight over it forever.
That is not speculation; In an interview with SyFy after the finale aired, Moore explained, “I felt, when I got to the finale, that the more I defined exactly what she was, the less interesting she became. And then I made the decision to go out on a more ambiguous note and let people argue about it perpetually.”
divine guide
The breaking character of Galactic Battlestar revival, Ronald D. Moore, reimagined Starbuck as a woman, Kara Thrace, casting Katee Sackhoff as the star pilot played by Dirk Benedict in the original series. Although the writers were praised for creating a strong, multidimensional character, some of that goodwill went out the window in season 3’s “Maelstrom,” when Starbuck appeared to die in his Viper as it imploded in the atmosphere of a distant planet. She wasn’t away for long, reappearing without explanation in the season finale, “Crossroads, Part II”, and offering to guide the Colonial Fleet to Earth.
If it seemed like a sudden shift from the Viper pilot to a Moses figure offering to lead the colonists out of exile, that’s because it was, and again, Moore explains that “She’s what you want to think of her. “It was deliberately left nebulous and vague.”
After dying in front of Apollo, Starbuck looked the same and was still played by Katee Sackhoff, but as Moore intended, fans still argued over whether the character was human. The show’s creator weighed in with his own controversial opinion: “And I think she was representative of an entity that didn’t like to be called God, but everyone else talked about it in divine terms. If you want to call her an angel, you could say that.”
There is evidence of a mystical force guiding her, even years before the start of Galactic Battlestarrepresented by the symbol of the Eye of Jupiter that appears throughout his life, from childhood drawings to strange dreams just before his death. The symbol had appeared earlier in the season on the walls of the Temple of the Five and within the supernova that guided the fleet to its next destination. More directly, Starbuck’s visions before his death of his mother, his apartment, and what appears to be Leoben (Number Two), but turns out to be a spirit guide.
The harbinger of death
Above Starbuck’s appearance after the resurrection is the Cylon’s prophecy from the First War: “Kara Thrace will lead the human race to its end. She is the herald of the Apocalypse, the harbinger of death. They should not follow her.”
How this plays out during the final season of Galactic Battlestar It’s a bit contradictory, since she brought the human race to its end by bringing it to Earth. To humans, she was a guide to the promised land, but it was to the Cylons that she became Death, destroyer of worlds.
While this is all entirely up to speculation, and there is evidence to support almost any reading of the word “omen”, I believe that his destruction of the Cylon ship Ressurection and the end of his reincarnation cycle brought about the Apocalypse. There’s also the argument that his decisions led to others’ deaths, or, as explained in one of Battlestar Galactica’s deleted scenes included as a bonus DVD, Starbuck explains to Apollo that discovering the Earth in ruins made that part of the prophecy came true.
As Ronald D. Moore intended, there is evidence for every interpretation of Starbuck’s nature after her death, from fans who think she was a Cylon to others who believe she was an angel and even some who go further and believe she was God. . By “going out on an ambiguous note,” he’s just as likely to have ties to the Kobol foundation as he is to The Five, but despite Moore’s goal of leaving it truly open, that didn’t stop Sackhoff from intervening. its interpretation.
There are no wrong answers
Buried in the comments to a photo Katee Sackhoff posted of her relaxing in the sun was her response to a fan who took a shot at her and asked if Starbuck was a spiritual guide. Sackhoff actually responded by saying, “She was a spirit brought to guide humanity to earth and salvation.”
You can see why, more than a decade later Galactic Battlestar went off the air, fans are still arguing about Starbuck. Moore and Sackhoff have two different answers, and based on the evidence presented in the series itself, neither of them are wrong.
My belief is that she was an angel sent to lead humanity out of exile in a mirror image of the Moses story, but that’s also because I don’t think the Cylon evidence is particularly strong. Visions from the Eye of Jupiter, along with prophecy, seem to point to a divine and spiritual force pushing humanity down a specific path. The theory that Number 7 was her father and therefore she was a Cylon depends on many other factors, some of which are explained in the show, notably that Cylon mating cannot produce offspring.
But that’s just my opinion, and fortunately Ronald D. Moore realized that, unlike what’s been happening with Star Wars, not everything needs a nice, tidy explanation. When you come back and look again Galactic Battlestar on Amazon Prime, see what evidence you can find to support Team Angel, Team Cylon, or the less popular but still valid Team She Was A Ghost.
